What is Andrea in Hawaiian?
Andrea is ʻAnakalia in Hawaiian, said ah-nah-kah-LEE-ah.
How Andrea became ʻAnakalia
Hawaiian is written with thirteen letters, so in Andrea D became K, R became L, and a vowel was slipped between the consonants that ran together. Hawaiian does not run two consonants together, and every syllable ends on a vowel. The ʻokina at the front is a consonant in Hawaiian, the catch in the voice before the first vowel.
ʻAnakalia has a page of its own as a Hawaiian given name, with its popularity and the names it is usually paired with.
How to say ʻAnakalia
Say it ah-nah-kah-LEE-ah, leaning on LEE, sounding every vowel: a as in “father”, i as “ee”. The ʻokina (ʻ) is a catch in the voice, the break in the middle of “uh-oh”. The pronunciation guide covers the whole system.